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Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

like I tell my friends, the answer to almost every question is online.....people like you are willing to share knowledge from having been there

ya, like i said, my mind is mush right now.....so, not gonna do any more tweaking tonite......but, after a good nite's sleep , I will probably be able to fry my morning eggs on my CPU by 10 am tomorrow, lol............

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

Actually OCing is made simple compared to what it was before, but still there are a few things you need to know and a few more if you are going to extreme.

Sandy Bridge will still be better in (almost) any benchmark, at the same CPU clock but not that better that it justify upgrading your system IMO.
Intel tick-tock strategy has only one purpose, squeez any buck they can out of our pockets, and we must fight against it :)

If you don't play games you graphics gard is already more than you will ever need. I get only 54fps in OpenGL and still the one ga,e I occasionaly play runs smooth with high details settings. I have tried to use the Catalist's performance settings and it gave me nothing niticeable aside some atrifacts from time to time so I gave it up.

Next stage I think is 200 x19 and memory at 1600, you can than try x20 and x21. Or you can try and push the memory to see how far it can hold the 7-7-7-21 timings, with small bclk increments.

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

You can limit the effect of the turbo by disabling c1e, eist and c3&c6 states in bios, that way it will just sit at the selected multiplier. Once you know your limits you can try to enable the powersavings again.

edit: digin up some pics I took from my p55, I found I had this settings for steady 21x200